An overwhelming voice from trauma, reality and desire.
A woman wakes up in an overturned car in the middle of a nighttime avenue. There is smoke and the smell of gasoline. She can barely feel her legs, the streetlights coming in from outside and the glass embedded in her back. She discovers that she is the driver and, instantly, she hears a sweet and delicate voice that calls her name.
In the back seat there is also a fifteen-year-old girl and a dog. The woman does not remember who they are, or what they are doing there. The only thing certain is that they are alive.
The story begins when we return to the past, where the narrator, Paulina, is still unharmed. She separates from her partner and sets off on a trip in her Peugeot 307 towards the south coast with Maite, her office colleague, and Gallardo, her dog.
A disturbing, enveloping and hopeful novel. A bo...read more
